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KCQAA recently held their annual Quality Recognition Awards honoring outstanding accomplishments of its members.  Here are this year's winners.
  • Best Presentation at KCQAA Business Meeting: Rob Edwards received this award for his "Tips of Automation" presentation.  The award is given based on the audience evaluation surveys throughout the year. 
  • Outstanding Quality Achievement by a Member Organization:  Assurant Employee Benefits won this award recognizing significant improvements made to I/T's testing processes, quality metrics program and overall quality structure. 
  • Outstanding Quality Achievement by an Individual Member: Jason Verhulst received this award for his efforts with standardizing the test management approach in Quality Center and making new strides in dashboard reporting, revealing areas in need of further improvements.
"The Outstanding Quality Achievement by a Member Organization Award is the result of the hard work everyone has done to improve I/T quality," says Jeff Shaw, 2nd V.P., Application Development. "While quality improvement is a never-ending journey and we have much to do, it's nice to be recognized for how far we've come."

 Congratulations to all the winners!
    
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February 2012 Business Meeting and Presentation
Automated Testing of Localized Applications
by Dana Cline
Cinzetti's
Thursday, February 9, 2012
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
 
The investment for members is $15 and $20 for non-members or late reservations.  For details, please go to the Meetings page, found under Events.
 
RSVP and Pay Online

RSVP by: Monday, February 6, 2012 to treasurer@kcqaa.org
 
  
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KCQAA was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit organization and a chapter of the Quality Assurance Institute. KCQAA is proud to be one of the first professional organizations to recognize the need for quality assurance in the Information Technology industry.
KCQAA is supported by over 30 local companies and has over 150 area members. KCQAA promotes and supports software certifications such as the “Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)” and the “Certified Software Tester (CST)”. 
KCQAA provides monthly business meetings where members and visitors can network and exchange information on the latest technology and quality techniques.  Our monthly business meeting and informational presentations on quality attract a diversified field of IT professionals located in the Kansas City area.  The meetings are usually held on the 2nd Thursday of every month.
 
We provide our members with a bimonthly newsletter, discounts on area meetings, seminars and conferences.
  
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1.     Encourage and foster the exchange of Information Technology quality practices and promote quality improvement by:
o    Hosting local and national speakers.
o    Networking with other IT professionals.
o    Communicating quality-related activities and events.
o    Encouraging quality commitment and involvement in all levels of the IT profession.
2.     Promote quality professionalism by educating members in current and emerging quality concepts and methods through local and national opportunities.
3.     Increase quality professional awareness by:
o    Promoting and assisting in the professional certification processes.
o    Publicly recognizing individuals and corporations for contributing to quality improvement in their companies and communities.
  
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Individual and Corporate memberships are available. Corporate memberships with three or more members qualify for a discount on annual membership dues according to the following schedule:

  • Individual member -- $ 36/year
  • 1-2 members -- $ 36/year (each)
  • 3-4 members -- $ 30/year (each)
  • 5-9 members -- $ 24/year (each)
  • 10+ members -- $18/year (each)

Click here to go to the membership application.
  

The Greater Kansas City Quality Assurance Association is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for Information Technology Professionals to promote Quality Assurance concepts, principles, and practices.
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